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Mozambique - Country Partnership Strategy for the period FY2012 - FY2015 (Anglais)

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The launch of the Mozambique Country Partnership Strategy (CPS) for FY12-15 comes at a momentous period in the country's impressive post-conflict journey; one which many analysts suggest has propelled the nation to a unique point of inflection. The optimism... Voir la suiteThe launch of the Mozambique Country Partnership Strategy (CPS) for FY12-15 comes at a momentous period in the country's impressive post-conflict journey; one which many analysts suggest has propelled the nation to a unique point of inflection. The optimism that accompanied the previous CPS for FY08-11, after two decades of growth and poverty reduction, has been replaced by sober but purposeful deliberation over Mozambique's path to development. In recent years, Government and donors have had to grapple with a deceleration of poverty reduction in the face of strong growth; social unrest that closely preceded those in the Arab world; a drop in the human development index and doing business country rankings, and the broader perception of reform deceleration; the likelihood of increased pressure and decreased aid among bilateral donors; and serious capacity constraints to manage increasingly important natural resources, including significant coal and newly discovered gas deposits which by all accounts will be a game changer for Mozambique's future. Thus, while significant challenges of sustaining stability and building a more equitable society persist, the upside potential of leveraging its strong post conflict performance towards transformative growth in the medium to longer-term, is enormous and almost second to none in Sub-Saharan Africa. Since the end of the two-decade long civil war in 1992, Mozambique has had to play catch up with the rest of the world. Macroeconomic stability, structural reforms, and reconstruction drove post-conflict growth which has been sustained over the past decade by enclave mega-projects in mining and energy production. The CPS Completion Report (CR) identified the following lessons: (a) an appropriate program of analytic work to underpin Bank programs and projects is needed to inform public debate on key development issues, including the entry points for economic transformation; (b) the CPS should be a living document and updated and monitored at mid-term with updated monitoring indicators; (c) Bank lending instruments should be chosen and sequenced more strategically to address sectoral bottlenecks and implementation capacity constraints; and (d) staffing and management vacancies affected the overall program delivery and results, and should have been addressed more expeditiously.
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